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christian bumper stickers

EronC — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:54:25 +0000

Ok so I’ve always appreciated the blog “stuff christians like” a lot. It is a nice cultural commentary on the often peculicar sub-culture we’ve made Christianity into. Today’s post was exceptionally funny to me.
So…in honor of having a really crappy Monday and the vote having a tie until only a few moments ago I’m letting that guy “write” my blog post for today and you can check it out at the link below. I’d love to hear some of your responses here after you’ve read his post. That way it’d make me feel like I actually wrote a legit post today

http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/01/christian-bumper-stickers/

Liberating the Whore pt. 2

EronC — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:40:53 +0000

The truth is we are all like the whore (Gomer) who Hosea married. We are constantly in pursuit of other lovers each of which is another attempt to bring some quick fix pleasure. Just as a whore seeks a thrill through sexual pleasure or through monetary gain we seek the quick fix relief by pursuing ways to sin more deeply. Whether it is through sex, money, desire to be liked, being a people pleaser, acting like the good church kid, judging others and saying their sins are worse than ours, pride thinking that we should get a pat on the back for being the one up front for leading music or teaching the bible study, doubting God, lacking in faith, false piety, pursuing knowledge for knowledge sake…the list goes on. All of these things are our “lovers” that we seek to make us feel better for the moment and never fill. Gomer was never satisfied with other lovers or the gifts she received from them. Gomer was representing the nation of Israel and their whoredom to their sins or “lovers”. All the great gifts that they received from other “lovers” where in fact gifts God allowed them to have. Gomer then loses everything and was stripped and exposed for the whore that she was.
It was after her shameful exposure that she was led to the wilderness and was shown a deeper love. She was led to the wilderness and was spoken to tenderly and her first love/husband was able to woe her once again. He knew her shame and loved her despite that. His love was deep and he was willing to pay a great price to buy her back because He loved her. But get this…money is nothing in comparison to the price that was paid to buy us back on the cross… Yet we deny our whoredom. But I pose this question to you– Do you think there is any value in having our whoredom exposed?

Liberating the Whore Pt 1

EronC — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:32:18 +0000

The Gospel is the message of liberation and yet so few live as such. We find ourselves living ensnared by sin and live like there is no hope. Sure with our mouths we confess that we know we are forgiven and yet we live our lives with our sins hidden behind false piety. We seek to find more creative ways to conceal our whoredom behind conservative clothing which is far more treasonous than the sin we were trying to hide in the first place! As we hide our sins we look to our “righteousness” to save us. This is clearly a fallacy vehemently condemned by scripture. It is in fact by definition the anti-gospel of grace and making our “righteous” actions an idol. As such, by our actions we are denying the validity of the Gospel, saying in affect that God was not able to cover our sins and thus denying the work that Jesus did on the cross.
The Bible does not teach that God only seeks out the righteous to save. However it does teach that only the righteous will not taste death, and again it says that there is none who are righteous. How does this all work? More thoughts to follow tomorrow…

Welcome to Religious Thoughts from an Irreligious Mind

EronC — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:41:28 +0000

Hey there vistor! Welcome to my thoughts. I am not sure why you are here or what you hope to gain by visiting, but I do appreciate you stopping by! Currently eroncoleman.com is under construction so to speak. My good buddy will is setting up the site and from what I’ve seen so far…its totally legit! so dont get used to the way it looks now, it will be much better!

Anyway, I’m not really sure what I will be blogging about. Much of it will be random topics of interest, some rant against the “system” i have, or I’m sure I will give my thoughts on different books, movies, music and such. What I do know is that I plan to ask a lot of questions. I really hope that this will be something that can be interactive…aka…I ask a question and you find your way to the little comment button/box and you reply! Make sense? Good.

First question…what do you think the title of the blog should be? I’m not a fan of “Eron’s blog” so I would love to hear your thoughts. Currently I have a subtitle that I like (religious thoughts from an irreligious mind) but I am not commited to it. I chose it for 2 reasons- 1) I figure it will be what this will typically be…I will present some discussion point that is poignant for the “religious” crowd, but I typically am not concerned with a religious answer or outcome. I want authenticity and people to move closer to being like Jesus not a religious system. 2) I’m trying to be more and more like Jesus. It is a long process and my mind has been so corrupted by sin that my mind is often far from God. Its only by the transforming grace of Jesus that I have any thoughts about God that are worthwhile.

All that to say, I like my subtitle, but it is too long to be a title. Therefore I would love your input on a title.
Ready…
Set…
Discuss.